NYMag podcaster notes that Fire Island fails the Bechdel test, Twitter responds

[babarsuhail]

So @hulu #FireIslandMovie gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way. Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys? Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy best friend?
- Hanna Rosin (@HannaRosin) June 6, 2022
NY Mag podcaster and author Hanna Rosin tweeted yesterday Fire Island gets an F- on the Bechdel

Comments

[melancolour]

wow these are a lot of defensive reactions

except for margaret cho who responded the best you could really

[pikapika217]

Why should they not be defensive??

[melancolour]

they should be

because it's true

and they're reacting to that truth by deflecting

[stuffedpanda]

???

[genbu_no_miko24]

Lol my friend was enjoying the comments roasting her.

“I feel very uncomfy when the attention is not on me 🐦”.

[yankeesarelove]

I thought this movie was cute! The lack of women is BLATANT but idk, there was so much diversity otherwise that I moved on. The focus of the movie was their male group - could've been pretty easy to throw some girls in there I guess though?

[tucker]

ugh I know, did we really need Now That’s What I Call Gay Asian Movie Volume 53?

That was a dumb tweet from her

[waltzofthemoon]

The Bechdel test is not really useful when you look at it on a film-by-film basis, it's just trying to point out a general trend with film-making on a wide scale.

[fauxkaren]

exactly!

ppl seems to really misunderstand it.

it's not about applying it on a film by film basis and deciding if it passes or fails and therefore whether the movie is good or not. it is more about looking about the film industry as a whole and how women are represented (in relation to men).

It's not meant to be this like arbiter of whether a movie is ok or not. It's just meant to get people thinking about the role of women in movies.

[imnotasquirrel]

it's annoying how people constantly misuse the bechdel test

remember when pacific rim stans tried to make the mako mori test a thing bc they were so salty/defensive that PR didn't pass the bechdel test?

[namae_nai]

omg what was their idea of the mako mari test?